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Review: Sentences of The Week
Review: Sentences of The Week
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R: Well here we go end of the week and we’re going to start a new one.
Y: you know what that means. We gotta eat again.
R: Well we gotta eat to be happy. Cause a happy stomach is a happy primate.
Y: Well lets go over some of the words and phrases we learned this week.
Together: Do you have a menu in English? 有英文的菜单吗?you3 ying1 wen2 de cai4 dan1
ma?
Conversation 1
A: 有英文的菜单吗?
R: Ya I’m reading the English menu, but still what is this? How do you say What is this? In
Chinese?
Y: zhe4 shi4 shen1 me.
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R: Zhe4 shi4 shen1 me.
Y: And this translates directly to this is what?
R: What tones is that?
Y: Zhe4 or this is the fourth tone.
R: Zhe4
Y: Shi4 means is. Shi4 is the fourth tone.
R: Shi4
Y: Together Zhe4 Shi4 means this is.
R: Zhe4 Shi4. both of them are fourth tones.
Y: How do you say This is in Chinese?
R: Zhe4 shi4.
Y: What is shen2 me. Shen2 is the second tone, and me is the neutral tone or the light tone,
R: Shen2 me
Y: So how do you say “what” in Chinese?
R: Shen2 me.
Y: How do you say This is?
R: Zhe4 shi4
Y: How do you say what?
R: shen2 me.
Y: Okay, let’s put it all together, What is this, or this is what.
R: Zhe4 shi4 shen2 me. What is this?
Conversation 2
A: 这是什么?
Conversation 3
A: 买单。
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